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1907683San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1907. Near fine. 24pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Minor wear. Booklet promoting the Southern Pacific Railway and highlights along its route. With a map and numerous images of the handsome Southern California scenery. Southern Pacific Company unknown
190363934Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1903. 8vo. x 6 280 2 pp. Frontisp. illustrated title border & text illustrations plates. Tan pictorial cloth w/ cover art illustration in green & brown very minor shelfwear slight rubbing still VG copy. Early “New Sierra Edition†of this noted group of essays revealing Austin’s pioneering support for environmentalism Native Americans and awareness of the extremes in the Western landscape of the Owens River Valley and the American Southwest enhanced by the artwork of E. Boyd Smith. In 1913 much of the Valley was purchased and the water divered to Southern California turning the “Switzerland of America†into a dust bowl. Austin’s 1868-1934 success with this work allowed her to move to Carmel CA freed her from a loveless marriage to Wallace Austin and supplied financial resources for her physically and mentally disabled daughter Ruth who was consigned to an institution where she remained until her death in 1918 from the Spanish Flu Pandemic. See: Zamorano 80 No. 2; Joy Lanzendorfer Searching for Mary Austin Alta California Book Club 2025. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
1910List3117Los Angeles California: Bekins Van & Storage 1910. Map measuring 15 ¼ x 13 ¼ inches. Folded with some wrinkling; Near Fine. A map of Los Angeles between Aldama Street South Indiana Street Slauson Ave and Arlington Street published by Bekins Van & Storage. The map is undated but based on the city’s population listed on the map—a mere 125000—it was created some time between 1900 when the population was about 103000 and 1910 when it had ballooned to over 319000. Bekins Van & Storage unknown
19351481Los Angeles 1935. Very good plus. Folding map approximately 18 x 20 inches. Minimal wear at folds. Minor toning and dust soiling. A detailed 1935 map of Los Angeles provided as a promotional item by Bekins Van & Storage Co. which had moving offices and storage facilities across California during the Depression. The present map positions downtown Los Angeles at center right and its four corners extend to Inglewood West Hollywood Elysian Park and Huntington Park with Bekins buildings marked across the city. The verso prints a street index and a text advertising Bekins services illustrated with images of company vans employees and facilities. unknown
185863628Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers 1858. 8vo. 292 pp. plus vi pp. of ads preceding the text 8 pp. following. Steel-engraved portrait frontisp. w/ tissue guard. Recent binding gilt lettering on spine minor foxing to first few leaves very faint tidemark at upper corner gutter margin through first couple signatures occasional thumbing still a VG copy. First edition of this fascinating biography of Lola Montez 1821-1861 -- i.e. Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert courtesan dancer and also believed to have been the major inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Irene Adler and the “Scandal in Bohemia.†After nearly bringing down the government of Bavaria and King Ludwig I by living with him as her mistress with the newly granted title Countess of Landsfield and as unofficial consort wielded political power urging for reform which the 1848 Revolutions swept away and she fled. Later bigamously marrying Cornet George Heald in 1849 she began her very successful career as dancer during the California Gold Rush although she never trained to dance and married for 2 weeks Pat Hull California Newspaperman in Grass Valley. She is perhaps best remembered for tutoring the famed Lotta Crabtree dancer and acting sensation from Grass Valley. This volume also contains her lectures on Beautiful Women Gallantry Heroines of History Comic Aspects of Love Wits & Women of Paris and Romanticism which Montez used to challenge societal norms about the roles of women in society and instead of cosmetics recommended that women pursue temperance exercise and cleanliness. See: Blasefield Hellraisers Heroines and Holy Women pp. 149-150. T.B. Peterson & Brothers, unknown
191434570San Francisco: The Philopolis Press 1914. First Edition. Frontispiece in colour profusely illustrated throughout from photographs. 4to publisher's original buckram over paper covered boards the upper cover lettered in gilt and decorated with a tipped on photographic plate of one of the missions. xiv 174 pp. A very well preserved and pleasing copy with very little wear and that confined to the tips. FIRST EDITION FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT. The most famous missions are included in the work among them San Luis Obispo San Juan Capistrano Santa Barbara Santa Cruz San Jose de Guadalupe San Juan Bautista Santa Inez San Francisco Solano San Carlos Borromeo and many others. The Philopolis Press hardcover
197158310Alturas CA: Irma Williams Laird Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy 1971. Tall 8vo. viii 2 147 1 pp. Title in red & black. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding map at rear. Red cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this curious history of Modoc County and of the Modoc Indian Wars by a descendant of the California 49’er pioneers who settled in Modoc Siskiyou & Shasta Counties and includes photos and family accounts. Although a relatively modern local history of the Indian Wars surrounding the Indian peoples known today as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation it should be noted that the author retains a number terms in her narrative such as “Squawâ€. Also included are extensive bibliography place names and list of the first registered voters in Modoc County. Irma Williams Laird, [Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy], hardcover
189476904San Francisco: Citizens' Charter Association 1894. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Quarto: 32 p. including the index. Self wraps 8 1/8" x 10". Toned and dampstained with some occasional blue pencil markings. Scarce OCLC locates a single holding at the Sutro Library.<br /> <br /> The first appearance of a proposed charter for the City and County of San Francisco. The California Constitution of 1879 limited the power of the state legislature to interfere with the affairs of municipal corporations and vested such corporations with extensive powers of local self-government. Oddly it seems that nearly every time a Board of Freeholders was formed to propose a charter for San Francisco in the last two decades of the 19th century the new laws were rejected by voters. Citizens' Charter Association unknown
191350886San Francisco CA: Paul Elder & Co. 1913. 4to. v 1 89 1 pp. printed on thick gray paper stock. Tipped-in photo frontisp. numerous tipped-in plates w/ explanatory text on versos numerous tipped-in text illustrations. Quarter burlap over light gray boards tipped-in plate on front cover of Mission San Gabriel gilt lettering front cover minor shelfwear rubbing still VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated travelogue and history down the California Mission Trail containing illustrations and photos from such artists as Dassonville Harold Taylor A.C. Vroman Harold Parker Hermann Albrecht Maude Jay Wilson and many others. Paul Elder & Co., hardcover
195962286Denver CO: Fred A. Rosenstock The Old West Publishing Co. 1959. 4to. 221 1 pp. Title in red & black frontisp. 3 folding maps 1 large chart of travel folded in rear pocket. Brick-red publisher’s cloth illustration vignette printed on front cover gilt lettering on spine partially uncut & unopened w/ d.j. slight scuffing upper right corner minor chipping dustsoiling couple closed tears & creasing NF/G copy. First edition of this exceptional effort by Morgan to present the Overland diary of Pritchard along with two previously unpublished maps of the 1849 gold rush miners by J. Goldsborough Bruff and the exceptional and immense chart tracing the emigration of no less than 162 diarists across the South Pass route to California demarcating 80 important points along the trail. Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Co., hardcover
195962285Denver CO: Fred A. Rosenstock The Old West Publishing Co. 1959. 4to. 221 1 pp. Title in red & black frontisp. 3 folding maps 1 large chart of travel folded in rear pocket. Brick-red publisher’s cloth illustration vignette printed on front cover gilt lettering on spine partially uncut & unopened w/ d.j. slight scuffing upper right corner F/NF copy. First edition of this exceptional effort by Morgan to present the Overland diary of Pritchard along with two previously unpublished maps of the 1849 gold rush miners by J. Goldsborough Bruff and the exceptional and immense chart tracing the emigration of no less than 162 diarists across the South Pass route to California demarcating 80 important points along the trail. Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Co., hardcover
190261749Unadilla NY: Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church Press of Geroge D. Raitt 1902. 8vo. xv 1 323 pp. plus 3 pp. publisher’s ads for Halsey’s “The Old New York Frontier.†Frontisp. plates 1 folding map. Red publisher’s linen gilt device front cover gilt lettering on spine minor soiling head of spine edgewear rubbing still VG- copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition one of 650 copies printed and then distributed by St. Matthew’s Church of this uncommon work where the second half of the book consists primarily of Dr. Halsey’s experiences as a member of a 49er Gold Rush “Company†and featuring his diary. Inspired by Horace Greeley’s Tribune trumpeting the California gold discovery Dr. Halsey and several friends after catching a Broadway production of “California and the Gold Diggings†organized pooled their money and set out for Panama. While waiting to sail from Panama City he notes a cargo of 200 gold ingots each weight 150 lbs. enroute from California. After arriving in San Francisco June 4 1849 the group experience the wild gambling dens hyper-inflation and head for Sacramento and the diggings at Big Bar on the Middle Fork of the American River. Even though Halsey tries to break off from the Company and speculate in real estate and set up a medical practice the company refuse to release him and they actually succeed in pulling 20-36 ounces a day from their diggings. After making back their investment and a little more he decides the area is over-saturated with doctors and returns to Unadilla NY. See: Kurutz California Gold Rush 308. Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church, [Press of Geroge D. Raitt], unknown
19169705San Francisco Paul Elder 1916. 1916. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 12 photographs. Original gilt stamped gray cloth t.e.g. Fine fresh copy. No bookplates. Signed and inscribed in blue ink on the half title page: "Compliments of John A. Hooper." Hooper was the ship's owner. Printed at Tomoye Press. Designed by Herman A. Funke. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder [1916]. hardcover
192011483San Diego: The San Diego-California Club 1920. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp.24 Frontis. three-color illustration of conquistadors. Illustrated with illustrations printed in purple ink. Bound in light-brown paper-covered boards over brown cloth. Minor soiling to covers. A scarce promotional with OCLC recording only four institutional copies. The San Diego-California Club hardcover
189063537Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 1890. 12mo. 193 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine decorated endpapers slight shelfwear slight bumping still a VG bright copy. First edition of this memoir by a Boston Metaphysician spiritualist healer to California in the Gilded Age including stops and memorable experiences in Pasadena Los Angeles Santa Barbara Riverside San Diego San Francisco San Francisco’s Chinatown & the Cliff House Lick Observatory Sonoma and extended tour through Yosemite National Park. Clark 1846-1925 was the daughter of well-to-do Brahmin Massachusetts parents and an invalid in her early life who believed she had been healed through spiritualism. She maintained an extensive practice in Boston as well as developed a large following in California and her 1904 biography stated “for eighteen years she has labored constantly in season and out of season not alone in Boston and its extended suburbs but in New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Washington Chicago and throughout California where during five winters she has had a large and successful practice. She has also lectured widely in the cities above mentioned on spiritual and ethical topics teaching many classes outlining her gospel of health presenting spiritual truth and the true science of Being through color symbolism and also through musical vibrations interpretations which have proved very helpful to the many lives thus blessed and uplifted.†See: Julia Ward Howe & Mary Graves Representative Women of New England 1904. Lee and Shepard, Publishers, hardcover
190770817San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co 1907. First edition of this fine anthology of California literature. Octavo. ix 1 367 1 colophon pp. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's heavy blue and white woven cloth title in orange on spine and cover laid down color portrait of Coolbrith on front pattern endpapers. top edge gilt. Some mull showing at front hinge but a tight and clean copy. Paul Elder and Co hardcover
192463247Hollywood CA: Hollywood Publishers Inc. Printed and bound by The Los Angeles Lithograph Co. Inc. 1924. 8vo. 543 1 pp. With photo plates throughout many consisting of photo montages facsimile signatures at the end of each article by the respective artist. Brown publisher’s embossed flexible cloth covers lettering and cover art illustration in blind of motion picture camera stars & palm tree front cover lettering in blind on front cover minor scuffing to head & foot of spine minor rubbing inner hinges neatly repaired ever-so-faint tidemark at fore-edges of preliminary & end leaves still a VG- copy from library of Donald M. Patton 1897-1951 former singer performer with the Ellison-White Chautauqua Circuit and later insurance broker in Portland OR and later Los Angeles CA. First edition of this fascinating work prepared from 1921-1924 with assistance of the Western Motion Picture Advertisers providing an essential and detailed history and snapshot of Silent Movie era Hollywood with a focus on the pre-Code moviemaking and industry itself. Included are essays and advice from such artists as Norma Talmadge on “What percentage of Girls Who Come to Hollywood Actually Achieve Success;†Constance Talmadge “What Opportunities are There for a Girl Who is Willing to Work to Stardom;†Betty Compson “Not a Life of Ease;†Clara Bow “What are the Essentials of Success†Edward Connelley “Aspirants Should Have Some Stage Experience;†as well as Wallace Beery “What is a “Heavy†Man.†Other contributors include Charlie Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks Rudolph Valentino Lon Chaney Sr. Buster Keaton Harold Lloyd Mary Pickford Tom Mix and others. Worldcat locates 1 copy Danish National Bibl. Hollywood Publishers, Inc., [Printed and bound by The Los Angeles Lithograph Co., Inc.], hardcover
195540543New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1955. 8vo. x 309 1 pp. Numerous illustrations & photos. Half-red cloth over patterned boards w/ d.j. cover art portrait of Montez slght edgewear couple very small closed tears slight sunning to spine VG/VG-. First edition of this fascinating biography of Lola Montez 1821-1861 -- i.e. Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert courtesan dancer and also believed to have been the major inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Irene Adler and the “Scandal in Bohemia.†After nearly bringing down the government of Bavaria and King Ludwig I bigamously marrying Cornet George Heald in 1849 she began her very successful career as dancer during the California Gold Rush and married for 2 weeks Pat Hull California Newspaperman in Grass Valley California. Holdredge 1898-1986 studied at the University of Oregon debuted as an opera singer in 1919 touring until the 1920’s and spent much of her later career writing on noteworthy San Francisco women. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
199562371Yosemite National Park CA: Yosemite Assoc. 1995. Tall 4to. 9.25 x 12.25 in. ix 1 278 pp. Frontisp. photo 214 photo illustrations 7 maps 1 large double-page. Colour-illustrated boards photo cover art of Yosemite slight bumping to 1 corner minor shelfwear slight age toning at fore-edge back cover still VG copy from the library of Charles H. “Brig†Belvin IV b. 1937 w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition of this engaging and well-illustrated history of the development of the Yosemite valley offering details of the early hotels roads and pioneers whose efforts led to the formation of the Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Assoc., hardcover
196959508New York: Kraus Reprint Co 1969. Kraus facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Very good . 66pp. Octavo 23 cm Rust-colored cloth over boards. The fore-edge margin of the fold-out at the front is creased. A reprint issued in commemoration of California's Bi-Centennial Anniversary 1769-1969.<br /> <br /> The Club originally printed 500 copies of The Zamorano 80 in 1945. A copy was given to each member at the June 6 1945 meeting.<br /> <br /> The Zamorano Club states<br /> <br /> "What has been the significance of this little book in the collecting world First it has been very difficult to obtain all eighty titles. Only four individuals were able to accomplish this. Thomas Streeter was the first to complete a collection of all eighty items; he sold his books at auction between 1966 and 1969. Frederick Beinecke was the second. He finished by buying Streeter’s copy of 'The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta the Celebrated California Bandit' by Yellow Bird John R. Ridge the only item he was missing. He immediately gave his collection to the library named after his family at Yale University which remains the only institution to hold all eighty items in first edition. Henry Clifford was the third collector to complete the Zamorano 80; his collection was sold at auction in 1995. The most recent complete collection was assembled by Daniel Volkmann. The auction of his books in 2003 fetched $883608.25! Kraus Reprint Co hardcover
189461007San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co. 215-219 Bush St. 1894. Fifteen parts in one vol. Oblong folio. 14.5 x 10.75 in. 240 pp unpaginated. 227 photo plates 13 double-page. Recent black cloth Portfolio No. 7 cover mounted on front cover as title endpapers renewed all fascicles were bound in adjustable slide post-binder as evidenced by discrete slits at gutter margin some occasional minor tears slight edgewear to textblock from thumbing still a VG copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this exceptional and complete photographic souvenir series capturing the California Midwinter International Exposition which was the first World’s Fair in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park prior to the Earthquake & Fire. Taber 1830-1912 was the official photographer of the Fair and he has captured with vividness the excitement and variety of the events in the Fair with night shots of the Electric Tower piercing the darkness the action in the Forty-Niner Mining Camp which featured “Monarch†the stuffed Grizzly Bear who was showcased in the venue along with logging scenes at Lake Tahoe Hopfields in Ukiah CA the bedraggled Apache confined to the “Arizona Indian Village†along with a portrait of a Chinese Opium Den in San Francisco’s Chinatown. H.S. Crocker Co., 215-219 Bush St., hardcover
189461008San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co. 215-219 Bush St. 1894. Fifteen parts in one vol. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 in. 240 pp unpaginated. 227 photo plates 13 double-page. Recent black cloth Portfolio No. 13 cover mounted on front cover as title endpapers renewed all fascicles were bound in adjustable slide post-binder as evidenced by discrete slits at gutter margin some occasional minor tears slight edgewear to textblock from thumbing textblock cropped poorly diagonally when originally bound still a VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this exceptional and complete photographic souvenir series capturing the California Midwinter International Exposition which was the first World’s Fair in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park prior to the Earthquake & Fire. Taber 1830-1912 was the official photographer of the Fair and he has captured with vividness the excitement and variety of the events in the Fair with night shots of the Electric Tower piercing the darkness the action in the Forty-Niner Mining Camp which featured “Monarch†the stuffed Grizzly Bear who was showcased in the venue along with logging scenes at Lake Tahoe Hopfields in Ukiah CA the bedraggled Apache confined to the “Arizona Indian Village†along with a portrait of a Chinese Opium Den in San Francisco’s Chinatown. H.S. Crocker Co., 215-219 Bush St., hardcover
194849105Berkeley CA: Berkeley Chamber of Commerce Board of Supervisors of Alameda County 1948. 4to 28 pp unpaginated. Numerous sepia-tinted photos text illustrations maps throughout. Sepia-tinted photo-illustrated softcovers slight shelfwear slight creasing still NF copy stapled as issued. First editions of this scarce post-World War II Berkeley California promotional pamphlet extolling the beauty of the city the importance and aesthetic of UC Berkeley as well as the transportation shopping and other advantages of the city. The photos include a number of the campus one of mid-century modern dorms and more. No copies located in Worldcat. Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Board of Supervisors of Alameda County, paperback
193162443Oakland CA: Oakland Tribune 1931. One Elephant folio map sized 22 x 34 in. printed on blue-tinted paper stock w/ scale of 1:1520000 and includes 6 different inset maps fold creases minor dustsoiling thumbing still VG bright copy. First edition thus of this well-executed and scarce automobile travel map issued by the Oakland Tribune at the onset of the Great Depression with specific mileage tables for traveling on U.S. Highways 99W 99E 99 40 & 101 with distances calculated from Oakland. Inset maps include Eastbay & Vicinity Sacramento Fresno Santa Clara & San Jose Bakersfield and Stockton CA. This automobile motoring map adapted and enhanced the 1923 and 1927 Oakland Tribune maps. Worldcat locates 2 copies CA Hist. Soc. Bancroft Oakland Tribune, unknown
19002050Oroville Ca 1900. Very good. Three letters 13pp. total on seven lined sheets. Previously folded. Minor wear and toning. An engaging group of three letters from a mining engineer named Jack in Oroville California to his partner and perhaps brother Eric that discuss the development of their investments in an area that saw a rapid growth in dredge mining around the turn of the 20th century. Our correspondent was working out a new mechanical process for gold mining on a promising site. However his partner and addressee had given power of attorney to an investor named Wyckoff who is described as "a snoty little devil" who "knows no more about a mine or my affairs than a jack rabbit" but was starving the operation of cash while delivering a steady stream of insults. At one point Wyckoff "Left me without cash for ten days when we had nothing but potatoes to feed in the camp." The dastardly money man is also suspected of trying to steal the proprietary process which had already yielded fruit in Mexico. If that weren't bad enough the author was in poor health -- passing blood suffering from continuous headaches and feeling faint. And yet as with any mining venture a fortune was just around the corner: "I will make you money in the mine and prove the process so we can get bigger mines. Everybody is gold-crazy over here." Good content concerning a region of California that saw significant commercial mining development during the late-19th and early 20th centuries. unknown
